{ "CVE_data_meta": { "ASSIGNER": "cve@mitre.org", "ID": "CVE-2012-1517", "STATE": "PUBLIC" }, "affects": { "vendor": { "vendor_data": [ { "product": { "product_data": [ { "product_name": "n/a", "version": { "version_data": [ { "version_value": "n/a" } ] } } ] }, "vendor_name": "n/a" } ] } }, "data_format": "MITRE", "data_type": "CVE", "data_version": "4.0", "description": { "description_data": [ { "lang": "eng", "value": "The VMX process in VMware ESXi 4.1 and ESX 4.1 does not properly handle RPC commands, which allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service (memory overwrite and process crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code on the host OS via vectors involving function pointers." } ] }, "problemtype": { "problemtype_data": [ { "description": [ { "lang": "eng", "value": "n/a" } ] } ] }, "references": { "reference_data": [ { "name": "81692", "refsource": "OSVDB", "url": "http://osvdb.org/81692" }, { "name": "http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2012-0009.html", "refsource": "CONFIRM", "url": "http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2012-0009.html" }, { "name": "1027018", "refsource": "SECTRACK", "url": "http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1027018" }, { "name": "oval:org.mitre.oval:def:17231", "refsource": "OVAL", "url": "https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A17231" }, { "name": "53369", "refsource": "BID", "url": "http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/53369" }, { "name": "vmware-rpc-commands-priv-esc(75374)", "refsource": "XF", "url": "https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/75374" } ] } }